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Follow us on LinkedIn or Google+!

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:06:08 +0100

Since a couple of days, Xpragma now also has a presence on LinkedIn and on Google+. Users of these social networks can now follow our LinkedIn page or our Google+ page to stay updated about new publications and other announcements.

Snippets of an Incomplete Mind

Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:37:15 +0100

As from this year on, we start with an additional mini-blog on Posterous. This gives us an easy and very fast way to publish ideas, notes, bookmarks, etc. while providing a convenient platform for interaction. So, join the discussion!

Blog: http://mbuyens.posterous.com/
RSS feed: http://mbuyens.posterous.com/rss.xml

The 'real' Enterprise 2.0 - Getting it right... and boring

marc.buyens@xpragma.com — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:48:24 +0200

New Management Briefing

Today, a growing number of companies are deploying various Enterprise 2.0 initiatives and more are planning for. The market for E2.0 software is growing. Social computing functionality such as wikis, blogs, microblogs, profiles, tags are becoming common practice...

While there is clear evidence of the potential business value Enterprise 2.0 can bring, an uneasy feeling remains. Often, the results are below expectations, or the adoption is slow or it is difficult to keep the momentum after the initial start. People get frustrated because there does not seem to be a real reason for these issues. It was such a success in the Web 2.0 space, why is it so difficult here?

Gradually, the thinking has evolved. "It's about the people, stupid! Delivering value 'in the flow'. The culture thing. We have to align E2.0 and process." And today, we are ending up with this quote of Deb Lavoy, Director Product Marketing at Open Text

"The 'real' Enterprise 2.0 is not a technology or marketing plan, but the reinvention of the enterprise itself. It's a rethinking of the structure, process, culture and even, in some cases, the very purpose of the enterprise."

Enterprise 2.0, why is it so difficult? And the "real" Enterprise 2.0, how real is this as a target?

Moving the discussion from Twine to Diigo

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:02:34 +0200

Following the acquisition of Twine by evri, the Twine.com website will be shut down. Consequently, the Business Interaction Management and Organisational Change twine discussion forums will no longer be available.

Since the current evri website does not really offer a suitable alternative, we have decided to move the corresponding content to Diigo. This does not really offer the same capabilities as available before on Twine, but awaiting better alternatives, we'll have to live with it.

Readers who were subscribed to the RSS feeds of these forums should now subscribe to the RSS feeds of the following Diigo groups:
http://groups.diigo.com/group/business-interaction-management/rss for the Business Interaction Management group and
http://groups.diigo.com/group/organisational-change/rss for the Organisational Change group.

Please note that, given the re-upload of the content, older articles might reappear in your feed reader.

Reverse Interaction Modelling (RIM)

marc.buyens@xpragma.com — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:41 +0200

The presentation for this management briefing is now also available online. A description of the basic methodology can be found at www.xpragma.com/rim_basic.php.

Website migration

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:23:48 +0100

Over the past days, the xpragma.be and xpragma.com websites have been migrated to a new server platform. Everything should be OK, but in case you experience a problem, please let us know.

The Xpragmatic View is now also available as a full RSS feed

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:54:33 +0100

Starting today, the Xpragmatic View is also available as a full RSS feed. This means that the complete text of the article is included in the feed and that you no longer have to click through to access the page on the website.

For subscribers who prefer the present shortened version, nothing changes. However, readers who want to switch to the new version have to link to the following address: http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpv_full_en.xml.

Please note that full RSS feeds allow for less control of the layout and therefore, the display of the content is likely to differ from the one on the website.

Also take into account that the result will vary depending upon the type of RSS reader you are using.

Xpragma is now also on Facebook

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:23:52 +0100

Since a couple of weeks, Xpragma now also has a presence on Facebook. Users of Facebook can now link to our Facebook fanpage to stay updated about new publications and other announcements.

Enterprise 2.0 - The dark forces of collaboration

marc.buyens@xpragma.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:47:45 +0200

*** New management briefing ***

More than ever, Enterprise 2.0 is the talk of the town. However, the discussion remains clouded by a continuing bias towards tools and technology and the setting of unrealistic expectations. In this briefing, we have a closer look at the real internals of Enterprise 2.0, the dark forces of collaboration.

Please note that this is not a pleading against Enterprise 2.0. In reality, we do strongly support the use of this type of approach by any organisation. However, companies must be aware of the reality that adopting Enterprise 2.0 takes something more than just the implementation of a few tools.

Indeed, companies will only be able to reap the real potential benefits of Enterprise 2.0 if they are also willing to question some of the very basic assumptions about their present organisation. More than anything else, Enterprise 2.0 is about organisational and behavioural change and this is the real challenge that awaits you.